In 1974, Steve Yenik and
Koshi Ichida arrived from Japan and began raising funds to create a zendo in the forest hills near the Vermont border.
Reverend Issho Fujita was the resident teacher from 1987 until 2005. Eishin Ikeda, who later led the Bean Town Sangha (founded by Eishin Ikeda and
Michael Flessas) whose first meetings were held on the second floor of a book store in Arlington, Massachusetts, returned as the present resident priest in 2006. ==See also==